These are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen in Wall Street research notes: Applied Materials Inc. (NASDAQ: AMAT) Started as Neutral at Susquehanna. AstraZeneca plc (NYSE: AZN)…
These are some of this Thursday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls: Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (NASDAQ: AMCC) Cut to Sell at S&P Equity Research (late…
Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) has been a long and painful investment for thousands of shareholders who have held shares in hopes that this turnaround stock can eventually turn around. News yesterday…
Reuters: Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) beat Wall St. expectations but it stock did not move. Reuters: The pay czar will criticize Goldman Sachs Group, Citigroup (NYSE: C), and JPMorgan Chase…
These are some of this Wednesday’s top analyst calls with upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street firms: ADC Telecommunications Inc. (NASDAQ: ADCT) Cut to Hold at Jefferies. Allstate Corp. (NYSE:…
Stocks with strong balance sheets that are likely to post good earnings have lost their interest for short sellers. Base on data as of June 30, short sellers abandoned the shares of…
Sanofi-Aventis SA (NYSE: SNY) was a bit of a stalking horse news item on a week that many investors and traders started taking off for a long weekend. The company has tried…
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations we have seen from Wall Street research calls this Wednesday morning: ABB Ltd. (NYSE: ABB) Raised to Buy at Goldman Sachs.…
Update throughout the day. Radio Shack (NYSE: RSK) is for sale and the top bidder is Blackstone Group (NYSE: BSX) (NYPost). Several large banks in Spain are about to merge (various) Bilfinger…
Douglas A. McIntyre Reuters: A new panel to address the budget deficit will start work. Reuters: A lawyer for Goldman Sachs Group (NYSE: GS) said it is not an “evil empire.” Reuters: The euro slipped…
This weekend’s edition of the Unusual Suspects would have probably been all about earnings, earnings, earnings. Friday’s SEC-Goldman news changed that. Our cast of characters for this coming week’s Unusual Suspects include…
We have many significant pre-market stock movers this morning, some on news and some on earnings. We have outlines more extensive data and analysis over at VSInvestor.com here on several of these…
There will start to become an obvious here in our after-hours movers… Earnings reports. That is not the entire case tonight, although earnings are impacting shares. Tonight’s after-hours move include Advanced Micro…
This weekend’s roster of the Unusual Suspects is back to earnings, although there are many other key stocks to watch out for this coming week. We did see a very brief hit…
Reuters: The Nikkei topped 11,000 for the first time since October 2008 Reuters: The White House will announce housing aid for those having difficulty with making their mortgage payments. Reuters: A Fed…
